St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-22
MEN WITH GREAT PROJECTS.
A Few of the Wonderful Fancies
and Prophecies of Men who Mean
70 Make Money.

President e. A. Broadwater, of the Mon
tana Central, with his wife and child, is at
the Ryan. on his return from the East.
Col. Broadwater having co-operated ex-
tensvely with j. ]. Hill. of the Manitoba,
at Washington in their Montana railroad
schemes, fells able to predict that the
Devils Lake extension of the Manitoba
road will be completed to Great Falls on
the Missouri river, in September, and that
Great Falls to Helena, iron laid and trains
moving by Oct. Is. thus affording through
traffic from st. Paul to Helena via the
Manitoba and the Montana Central before
next winter.
There was meeting yesterday in J. B.
bubbles office of the Rocky Forks Railway
and Coal company, at which were present
President T. B. Platt, of Iowa; Hamilton
Browne and j. P. Hubble, of this city, and
Walter Cooper, of Bozeman, who is one of
the largest owners in the Rocky Forks coal
mining plant in the Gallatin valley, and
who with his wife are on their way home
from Washington. domiciled at the Ryan
until the Bismarck blockade is broken. Mr..
Cooper devoted his time at Washington dur
ing the session to securing the right of way
through the Crow reservation. Mr.. Cooper
is of the opinion that the Rocky Forks coal
mines are the greatest coal fields west of
the Alleghenies, and that their destiny is to
supply the railways, smelterS and private
consumers of Montana. whose supply last
winter was so limited that hard coal, which
is generally $40 per ton, according to what
another Montana gentleman says, reached
high water marx at $50 per ton in the
North Missouri country, and in fact the
ntnIo OF Eo11
forced to close up. and private families
went to bed at p. H., owing to the scarcity
of fuel. The opening of these new mines
will do away with many of the
drawbacks which the Excelsior territory
has suffered. The right of way for the
road having been graded and capital tn
amounting to 81, 500, 600 having been raised
work will begin at once as soon as the snow
goes at Laurel, thirteen miles west of Bill
ings, on the Northern Pacific, and the road
will be graded for forty-five miles. AS
soon as that portion is completed the line
will be pushed through to Cook City and
Galena, where the great silver, copper, gold
and Galena mines are.
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S. A. Phillips, the youthful boomer who
left this city not long ago to help run off
copies of the Duluth Sun, weekly, and who
now has the ambltl0n 10 start q daily paper,
was at the Ryan last night in company with
Edgar r. Mills. the retired secretary of the
Duluth chamber Of commerce, who now
contemplates leaving Duluth to inaugurate
a great and original enterprise in st. Paul.
Mr.. Phillips is convinced that had it not
been for the Duluth boom, about all the
daily papers there would have gone under,
considering how the field was cut I'D, but
since the boom started he. thinks it has
been very good picking for hard working
and sagacous newspaper scribes He 90 es
still farther and claims that the Duluth
newspaper business is the most profitable
in the United States.
BONE BY THE CHAMBER.
Capt. Berlscy Wants To Know All
About The City's ROnds--A plea
For n Mining stock Exchange.